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and shall not be accepted and paid for by the County Commissioners
until the County Road Superintendent has certified to said County Com-
missioners that the said road has been built according to the contract and
specifications signed by the contractor, if such road is built by contract.

1912, ch. 666, sec. 119J1.

268. Whenever the County Road Superintendent shall find it neces-
sary to open an outlet or watercourse through private property in How-
ard county to secure proper drainage of any public road in said county,
he shall forthwith so inform the County Commissioners of said county,
and if the owners of such property consent to the opening of such outlet
or watercourse, and if such owner and the said County Commissioners
shall agree upon the value, and price to be paid for the same, then such,
consent and agreement shall be entered on the books of the County Com-
missioners, and such outlet or watercourse shall be opened by the said
County Road Superintendent, but if the owner shall not consent, then the
County Commissioners shall have such power and authority to condemn
the land for such outlet or watercourse as is now or hereafter may be con-
ferred by the Code of Public General Laws of the State of Maryland for
condemning public highways, and shall appoint three examiners to go
over such proposed outlet or watercourse for such drainage, who, or a
majority of whom, shall estimate the damage to the owner or owners of
the land through which said outlet or watercourse runs, and where said
drainage so estimated is tendered to the owner of said private property,
the said County Road Superintendent shall immediately cause such out-
let or watercourse to be opened; said County Road Superintendent shall
furnish said examiners with a plat showing the proposed location and
profile of such outlet or watercourse; and for the purpose of making such
plat and profile the said County Road Superintendent is authorized to go
upon private property through which said proposed outlet or watercourse
shall pass, and to make whatever survey or surveys that he may deem
necessary for such purpose; provided, that any such outlet or watercourse
shall not be opened so as to pass through the buildings, gardens, yards or
burial grounds of any person without the consent of the owner in writing.

1912, ch. 666, sec. 119K1.

269. The County Commissioners shall not authorize the expenditure
of a larger or greater sum in any fiscal year for work done and material
furnished and for team hire and other expenses, than has been levied for
the said fiscal year. The County Commissioners are hereby authorized,
empowered and directed to permit persons to place stone at some desig-
nated place, by the County Superintendent and in manner prescribed by
him, in any of the several districts of said county, to be used on the public-
roads at a price, per perch, to be fixed by the said County Commissioners.*

*Sec. 2, ch. 666, 1912, repealed all laws Inconsistent or in conflict therewith.